No more pictures in Outlook since automatic upgrade to Internet Explorer 11

Question

starting point - Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, I.E 11, Office 2007, on an Intel I7-3770 platform
Hey folks,
About a month ago I noticed that numerous emails were getting red X's in them. After ignoring it for a few weeks, because I'm busy taking classes, I decided to try to fix it. At that point I was using Outlook 2007 and Internet Explorer 11 (although I hadn't
realized I was using I.E. 11. I thought it was still I.E. 10)
I found the article "Red X's in Email Messages" by  Slipstick Systems and tried all their suggestions (deleting temporary files, making sure you aren't out of file space, checking the registry for the key that causes this, etc.). After having
no success with fixing this using Office 2007 I decided MAYBE I could fix it if I upgraded to Office 2010. I installed 2010, no change. Some of the messages still had red X's and some say "The linked image cannot be displayed. Etc....". I went
through all the Slipstick suggestions again. No change.
I started reading MORE articles about the issue. I checked file permissions, no issues. Finally, I read a couple of posts about the problem really being an Internet Explorer issue. One said turn off offline mode (or whatever it's called, I don't have that
article in front of me.) A second article said something about it not being available in I.E. 11. I looked, and that's when I finally figure out I was using I.E. 11 (a disadvantage to using auto upgrade, I guess. You don't know when upgrades happen.)
Looking to see when I.E. got upgraded, I decided there was a good chance it was the I.E. upgrade that caused the issue. So, I uninstalled I.E. 11 and the problem went away. I THOUGHT the problem was solved BUT, when you uninstall I.E. 11 in Windows
7, you end up with I.E. 8, a little insecure. So I tried upgrading. NOW I.E. 9 and 10 both give me the same problem, 2 flavors of red X's, just like I started with.
 The last thing I tried was creating a new Outlook profile, still no dice. I'm too nervous to use I.E. 8 but I am NOT clicking on every link in an email to see what the picture is supposed to be.
Any suggestions aside from the Slipstick article? Any hints would be GREATLY appreciated.
       Dan Goodale

Answer 1

Hi,
First please run Outlook in Safe Mode:
Press Win + R and type “outlook.exe /safe” in the blank box, then press Enter.
If there’s no problem in Safe Mode, disable the suspicious add-ins to verify which add-ins caused this issue.
We may also try to change the Location of Temporary InternetExplorer Files in Internet Explorer to test the result (the steps below are for IE 10):
Internet Explorer -> Internet options -> General
tab -> Under Browsing history, click on Settings
button -> Temporary Internet Files tab -> Under Current location, click on
Move folder button -> Choose the new location, click
OK.
Regards.
Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support